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Date:      Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:15:38 -0400
From:      dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSDI 2.0 vs. FreeBSD 2.x
Message-ID:  <199606181515.LAA03349@etinc.com>

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>> Karl, knowing you from the days of ISC I'm surprised you would
>> give BSDI that much slack. I hardly think that an OS lacking
>> a 'lockd' qualifies as an NFS server. Try juggling a network
>> of BSDI NFS realestate in a network of machines that can
>> actually do file locking... not fun.
>
>NOBODY does NFS file locking properly.  NOBODY.
>
>Trust me on this -- 10+ years of experience with this beast has convinced me
>that absolutely no one has implemented NFS locking in a manner that I would
>trust for anything mission critical.  So I don't.
>
>> I too was stunned by my recent BSDI pricing... only a matter of time.

another point for Novell!

Dennis
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